Oops!
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006Erm, in trying to get a reasonable picture of me on this site from flickr, I posted a photo that our (then) two year old daughter had taken of me – for testing purposes…. When it looked like it didn’t work I went off to bed – only to find that it had worked and [...]
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
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December SSCF
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006Some notes from the SSCF board meeting yesterday…
We’re still in a position where we’ve got to spend the investment before the end of the year – otherwise it’s taken back by the government. We’re getting there and we should be ok on the capital cash now. It seems that the revenue (wages) money is going [...]
New Layout
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006I’ve changed around the layout of the site – well, to be honest I’ve picked up a new theme on the wordpress website. It was always a bit odd that I was a Labour councillor with a blue website (in an area where we only have Labour and Conservative councillors).
Plus… there’s a bit of space [...]
West Lancs smoking ban
Thursday, November 30th, 2006I’ve not written anything here about the West Lancs Council smoking ban that has been reported in the press recently. This is partly because it has yet to go to full council in December. That said, I did attend the cabinet meeting when it was discussed. Unfortunately, all that we mere-mortal non-cabinet-members can do is [...]
SSCF update 2
Monday, November 6th, 2006The government has said (apparently) that the Safer Stronger Communities investment (SSCF) for year 1 has to be spent by the end of the financial year. This is regrettable because the first half of the year has been spent talking to residents in the SSCF neighbourhood and setting up the board, which was further delayed [...]
Digmoor SSCF update
Saturday, October 21st, 2006It was the second proper meeting of the SSCF (Safer Stronger Communities Fund) board on Thursday evening. Things are starting to move forward. At the first meeting the board had decided to invest the capital monies in the super output area covering Beechtrees and surrounding roads.
This meeting first agreed to co-opt Joanne Harrison on as [...]
Public toilets – lessons from Tories in Richmond
Sunday, September 24th, 2006A couple of months ago, this report was discussed at full council about some public toilets in Ormskirk. There was little doubt that the toilets were costing too much – equivalent to a cost of £7.41 for each use of the facility.
The paper proposed that the toilets should be removed and the money saved should be [...]
conference – just visiting
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006With this year’s conference just a few miles away, you’d think that I’d sort out my pass and make sure I was going. Well… it didn’t happen. Mainly because I didn’t know if I was going to be busy with work (which I am) and that our little Joel is one on Tuesday.
Next year, I’ll be [...]
Top 100 Labour Bloggers
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Just noticed that this humble site appears at number 51 in the top 100 Labour bloggers: What’s new pussycat?: Top 100 Labour Bloggers
To be honest, I think this is a sign that lefty blogging is in a dire state, rather than any indication of the quality or popularity of this site. I also think that [...]
